What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff Platform Security Engineer position at Fivetran?
From Fivetran's founding until now, our mission has remained the same : to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We're proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About the Role
Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.
We're looking for a highly motivated and skilled Senior Staff Platform Security Engineer to join our Security team.
This individual contributor (IC) role is hands-on and execution-focused, requiring expertise in application security, cloud security, and DevSecOps. You will work closely with engineering teams to integrate security into the development lifecycle, automate security processes, and ensure resilience against emerging threats.
This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of our Oakland, CA office in the US.
Technologies You'll Use
Scripting Languages(Python, Go, Bash), Java, IaC(Terraform), Github, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Platform(AWS, GCP & Azure), Build Tools(Maven, Buildkite, NPM), Container Technology(Docker, Kubernetes).
What You'll Do
- Architect and implement security solutions that protect cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure.
- Partner with engineering teams to integrate security tooling into the SDLC, enabling seamless DevSecOps adoption.
- Conduct security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
- Automate security processes by developing integrations and security checks for machine configurations, container images, IAM policies, firewall rules, and cloud storage policies.
- Perform security design reviews for enterprise applications, ensuring compliance with security best practices and industry standards.
- Apply and enhance security assessment tools and processes, including penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, SIEM, DLP, and EDR.
- Lead threat modeling efforts to operationalize and automate security across system and software development lifecycles.
- Collaborate with internal engineering teams to tackle security challenges across the stack while fostering a security-first culture.
- Stay up to date with cybersecurity threats, trends, and industry standards to ensure Fivetran remains resilient against emerging risks.
Skills We're Looking For
LI-HYBRID #LI-MD1
The pay range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the target position and level. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your location during the hiring process.
Oakland Pay Range
225,570.39-$281,962.99 USD
Perks and Benefits
Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.
We're honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we're proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
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Salary : $225,570 - $281,963
